The Royal Globe
Michel kept screaming.
“I have ears, you know! Could you cease your incessant screaming?”
“Sorry.”
“I think you’ve damaged my hearing. Haven’t you ever flown before?”
“Of course I have, but in a plane not a space rocket.”
Michel peered out of the window of the space rocket, and into the deep space which they were zooming through. Was this the same space as existed beyond the earth’s atmosphere? Could they be passing planets like Saturn or Jupiter, or was this space within a different galaxy? Michel’s brain began to hurt. “Duke, where are we?”
“Inside a space rocket, dum-dum.”
Michel rolled his eyes and shook his head. For once it would be nice to get a straight answer from him, rather than the obvious followed by an insult.
“Right now, you, me, this space rocket -
